DEGW
supported National Instruments Italy in settling into its new headquarters in
Assago by providing a neat fit-out project embodying the client’s technological
content in a gentle way paying due attention to both professional and personal
needs.

The
result of an investment crowning a constant process of growth, National
Instruments’ new headquarters have been located on the 10th and 11th
floors of Palazzo U4 in Milanofiori Nord Business Centre since April 2012: a
total of over 2000 m² of surface area for 73 people designed by DEGW based
around a concept catering for the client’s multiple requirements while
overcoming the constraints of a relatively unconventional architectural layout.

The spatial
design is based around an American-style open-space layout with L-shaped
workstations set along a glass facade on the south side, mainly enclosed rooms
over on the north side featuring a regular pattern of windows, and a
combination of all the necessary supports: formal and informal meeting areas,
break areas, photocopying facilities, kitchenettes and oval-shaped pieces of
green carpet along the central corridor designed to create ‘oases’ for the most
informal situations.

All in a soft but technologically
cutting-edge setting, as is particularly evident in the 11th floor
client area, where the brand’s technological side is most clearly to the fore
in the reception with its designer furniture, in the LED-lit exhibition niches
for the company’s main products, and in the break area equipped with tablets.
It can also be seen in the coordinated graphics custom-designed by DEGW complete
with ‘Lab view’ work diagrams and stylised computer circuits running across the
glass walls in the various premises, including the test laboratory, that has deliberately
been left on view, just like a kitchen in a restaurant: food for thought.